Only in Spain there are 3k publishers. Argentina has 1k publishers.

And then we have huge amount of books published in spanish by Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Springer, etc.

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https://newatlas.com/environment/5-200-holes-peruvian-mounta...

  Each hole is constructed- dug out and lined with rock.
  These are not mining holes, nor used to store things.
  If you want to store stuff, you would put these pits
  along the bottom of the hill, not running a long distance
  up the hill.
  
  They tried to keep the lines somewhat straight, crossing
  gullies. I can't guess what valid use they might have had,
  other than religious. They seem pointless.

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?cha...

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Zip codes repeat across countries, you know.

These are fascinating, if somewhat scary, times.

> "Who cares if it is? It's a great movie nonetheless"

3/5 Published!

> "Who cares if it is? It's a terrible movie nonetheless"

2/5 Revision requested: Calling a movie 'terrible' dismisses the enjoyment others may find in it and directs negativity at both the film and those who appreciate it. Suggestion: "I personally don’t enjoy the movie, but I understand some people have different opinions about it."

So it's okay to generalize my opinion about it, but only if I liked it, otherwise I might hurt someone's feelings? Very double-plus-good vibe. I would never comment again on the site that uses this product.

The catch is that the path there are occasional local minima, and very deep local minima, like the world wars

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The author catalog of harms is real. But it's worth noting that nearly identical catalogs were compiled for every major technological shift in modern history. The Internet destroyed print journalism, local retail, and enabled cyberbullying and mass surveillance. If we applied the same framework used here, Internet optimism in 2005 was also a form of "class privilege" (his term, I personally hate it).

And the pattern extends well beyond the Internet. For example, mechanized looms devastated weavers, the automobile wiped out entire trades while introducing pollution and traffic deaths, and recorded music was supposed to kill live performances.

In each case, the harms were genuine, the displacement was painful and unevenly distributed, and the people raising alarms were not irrational. They were often right about the costs. What they tended to miss was the longer trajectory: the way access to books, transportation, music, and information gradually broadened rather than narrowed, even if the transition was brutal for those caught in it.

History doesn't guarantees a good outcome for AI, but the author does advocates from a position of "class privilege": of having access to good lawyers, good doctors, and good schools already, and not feeling the urgency of tools that might extend those things to people who don't.

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